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Ivan Muller Botelho
Ivan Muller Botelho is a Brazilian electrical engineer and businessman who chairs the board of Energisa, the family-controlled electricity utility, and is a third-generation descendant of one of its founders.
Ivens Dias Branco Junior
Ivens Dias Branco Junior is a Brazilian food-industry executive, president and CEO since 2014 of M. Dias Branco, Brazil's largest maker of pasta and biscuits.
İzzet Özilhan
İzzet Özilhan was a Turkish businessman who co-founded the Anadolu Group with Kamil Yazıcı in 1950, launched Efes Pilsen in 1969, and died in 2014.
J&T Finance Group SE
J&T Finance Group SE is a Prague-based European bank holding company in Central and Eastern Europe, founded by Patrik Tkáč and Ivan Jakabovič in 1994.
Jacinto Ng
Jacinto Ng is a Filipino entrepreneur who founded the biscuit company Rebisco in 1963 and founded Asia United Bank, chairing it until his 2017 retirement.
Jacobs family
The Jacobs family is a Zurich-based business family descended from Bremen coffee entrepreneur Klaus J. Jacobs, controlling Jacobs Holding and a major stake in Barry Callebaut.
Jacques Saadé
Jacques Saadé (1937–2018) was a Lebanese-born French shipping magnate who founded CMA in Marseille in 1978, merging it in 1999 into CMA CGM, the world's third-largest container-shipping line.
Jaime Jorba
Jaime Jorba (Jaime Jorba Sendra, 1918–2009) was a Spanish-born Mexican businessman who co-founded Panificación Bimbo in Mexico City in 1945, then founded a Bimbo bakery in Catalonia.
Jaime Sendra
Jaime Sendra (1910–1985) was a Mexico City-born businessman who co-founded Panificación Bimbo in 1945, the bakery that grew into Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company.
Jaime Zobel de Ayala
Jaime Zobel de Ayala, born 1934, is a Filipino businessman who chaired Ayala Corporation, the Philippines' oldest business group, until 2006, and is credited with developing Makati into the country's financial district.
Jaimes Almeida Júnior
Jaimes Almeida Júnior is a Brazilian business executive who founded Almeida Junior, which operates six malls in Santa Catarina, and remains its CEO and sole shareholder.
Jair Coser
Jair Coser is a Brazilian restaurateur who co-founded the Fogo de Chão churrascaria chain in Porto Alegre in 1979 and led its expansion into the United States.
James Gamble (soapmaker)
James Gamble (1803–1891) was an Irish-born soapmaker who emigrated to America in 1819 and co-founded Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati in 1837, running manufacturing while William Procter handled sales.
James Goldstein
James (Jimmy) Goldstein, American real estate investor and NBA superfan with Lakers and Clippers courtside season tickets, 100+ games a year; wealth from California mobile home parks and rent-control litigation; Sheats-Goldstein Residence bequeathed to LACMA.
Jan Antonín Baťa
Jan Antonín Baťa (1898–1965) was a Czech shoe manufacturer, half-brother of founder Tomáš Baťa, who led the Baťa company in Zlín from 1932 to 1939 and spent his final years in Brazil founding towns.
Jan Gotlib Bloch
Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902) was a Polish banker and railway financier known as the "King of Railways" who wrote a study predicting modern war's economic exhaustion.
Jannie Mouton
Jannie Mouton is a South African billionaire businessman based in Stellenbosch who founded PSG Group in 1995 after being fired at 48, and co-founded Capitec Bank.
Jareeporn Jarukornsakul
Jareeporn Jarukornsakul (จรีพร จารุกรสกุล) is a Thai businesswoman who co-founded WHA Corporation in 2003 and leads it as Group CEO, building one of Thailand's largest industrial-estate groups.
Jaroslav Strnad
Jaroslav Strnad is a Czech arms-industry businessman who founded Excalibur Army in 1995, built Czechoslovak Group, and took over the Tatra truck works in 2013.
Jason Maynard
Jason Maynard is an American business executive who co-founded Mount Kellett Capital Management in 2008, leading its Asia business after heading Goldman Sachs' Asian Special Situations Group.
Jeffrey Cheah
Jeffrey Cheah is a Malaysian businessman who founded Sunway Group in 1974 as a tin-mining venture and built it into a conglomerate spanning property, healthcare, and education.
João Moreira Salles
João Moreira Salles is a Brazilian billionaire investor and documentary filmmaker, son of Unibanco founder Walther Moreira Salles, whose family fortune rests on the niobium miner CBMM.
Johann Offner
Johann Offner is an Austrian family-business executive who leads the Johann Offner group in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, an eighth-generation firm founded in 1755 with over 700 employees.
John Gómez Restrepo
John Gómez Restrepo (1917–2014) was a Colombian businessman and politician who co-founded Productos Familia in 1958, the company behind the Familia tissue brand and Grupo Familia.
John Pilkington (shipbroker)
John Pilkington (1820–1890) was a Liverpool shipbroker who, with Henry Threlfall Wilson, founded in 1845 the firm from which the original White Star Line grew, leaving in 1856.
John Taylor (manufacturer)
John Taylor (c.1711–1775) was a Birmingham manufacturer of buttons and japanned ware who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in 1765, the bank from which Lloyds Banking Group descends.
John Taylor junior
John Taylor junior (died 1814) was an English banker who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in Birmingham in 1765, the partnership from which Lloyds Bank descends.
Jörg Duschmalé
Jörg Duschmalé, born 1984, is a Swiss chemist and great-great-grandson of Roche founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who has represented the family shareholder group on Roche's board since 2020.
José A. Muguerza
José A. Muguerza (1858–1939) was a Monterrey merchant, banker, and industrialist who co-founded the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc brewery in 1890 and founded the hospital now called Christus Muguerza.
José Batista Sobrinho
José Batista Sobrinho, known as Zé Mineiro, is the Brazilian founder of JBS, the world's largest meat company, which he began as a butcher shop in Anápolis, Goiás, in 1953.